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So recently I've had the urge to play around with a sci-fi setting for tabletop RPGs. I've considered using both Traveller and Rogue Trader for it but I've got the nagging concern that comes with any vehicle-oriented tabletop game:

The Driver

Basically, when inside the vehicle, the driver PC is usually the most important person around. The campaign can even just become a degree of solo adventuring, but once you get out of the ship, the driver's skills often become useless. I realise there's ways to fix a campaign to fix this (tell driver to take other skills, have boarding parties, etc) but I wanted to try something else.

I want to treat the starship, in this case, as a sort of unofficial PC, with it's own set of attributes. When you get into a fight or something, each player takes their turn at the same initiative as their ship and mans the various elements of the ships, much like FTL-style. In fact, taking an FTL approach of outfitting, upgrading, and even designing could be fun for players, and even more fun for the sadistic DM to destroy their collaborative ship.

Might be a bit vague here, but is there any systems which have a sort of custom, progression system to their vehicles? Trader seems to have its own ship-building, but I'm not sure if it's what I want yet.

How do we make D&D less shit?

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Meanwhile on that Saturday afternoon, you were looking forward to tonight's festivities. John had the fun idea of having a sleepover at his room tonight to commence the start of the week long vacation, Golden Week. Compared to last time, you can stay up all night and play all sorts of fun games. And you don't have to worry about the following morning. You are thinking about what sort of things you will need to really make the sleepover a night to remember.

But the real question is, who are you?

[]Cecilia Alcott
[]Laura Bodewig
[]Charlotte Dunois
[]Lingyin Huang (Rin)
[]Houki Shinonono

Takistan Quest is back!
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Hundreds of years ago, you were the great Demon Lord that spread darkness across the world. For forty years you reign unchallenged before the Hero of Light emerge. The hero gathered fragments of resistance and forged them into an army that destroyed the forces of darkness. You were defeated and through magic ritual was bound to hell for all time.

Good thing there's loopholes. Your children had spread across the world, thinning their demonic blood with each generation until there is only a few left with potential. That is more than enough for you alter their fates.

You can infused a descendant with a dark crystal giving them power and you influence. Currently you can only infuse one crystal per descendant, but can increase this limit by selective breeding. Once you infuse 10 crystals into a descendant you will be reborn.

Current Descendants available.
>Beast-master (Physical D, Social D/C, Mental D, Magic Affinity C)
>Monk (Physical C, Social D, Mental D, Magic Affinity D) (Charles, Subclass Gentleman. 89/101 Darkness Points.)
>Valkyrie (Physical D/C, Social D/C, Mental D, Magic Affinity D)
>Amazon (Physical D/C, Social D/C, Mental D/C, Magic Affinity E/D) (Jasmine, Sub-class Callous Rouge. 100/101 Darkness points)

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